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Eva Crackles

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Nationality
  
British

Institutions
  
University of Hull

Notable awards
  
MBE (1992)

Field
  
Botany

Academic advisor
  
Ronald Good

Fields
  
Botany

Doctoral advisor
  
Ronald Good

Died
  
14 July 2007

Institution
  
University of Hull

Born
  
Florence Eva Crackles 23 January 1918 Hull, England (
1918-01-23
)

Notable award
  
Order of the British Empire (1992)

Eva Crackles (1918–2007) was a British botanist and teacher notable for her major contributions to the Atlas of the British Flora, published in 1962.

She received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Hull in 1991. The following year, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her work in plant conservation. Crackles was elected Honorary Life member of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland in 2000.

Works

  • The Flowering Plants of Spurn. Hull Academic Press. 1986. ASIN B0007BMORO. 
  • Flora of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Hull Academic Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0859584876. 
  • References

    Eva Crackles Wikipedia